Word: chain
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Statler, ninth in the chain, will have an outdoor swimming pool, hotel shops on three levels; each of its 1,275 air-conditioned rooms will have an outside exposure and a built-in television set. Travelers who dislike the nuisance of parking their cars and entering a lobby in rumpled clothes, won't have to. They will be able to drive into a 475-car underground garage, register as they alight and take a special elevator direct to their floor...
Comfortably dressed in undershirt and shorts, the Supreme Bishop was drinking ice-cold beer in his Manila house when the official word was brought to him: the Manila Court of the First Instance had at last declared him head of the Philippine Independent Church. Tall, chain-smoking Bishop Isabelo de los Reyes promptly sent out a directive calling for a Supreme Council of Bishops in July to set about making Aglipayanism the national church of the Philippines...
...Before breakfast at his home on the beachfront in Santa Monica, Zanuck begins a chain-smoking day with one of his eight-inch cigars-the first of 20-and a phone call on his private wire to the studio to find out how movies-his own and competitors'-are grossing around the country. After a shave by Sam ("The Barber") Silver, who comes out from the studio, Zanuck drives his green Cadillac ten miles to the lot, attacks production schedules, mail, memos and telegrams until 1 p.m. Then he takes a sawed-off polo mallet, which he uses...
...their marriage by proxy. Summoning a dozen friends, they broke the news and began pouring champagne. "I know it's a strange sort of marriage," said Ingrid, "but ... I'm glad that I'm married." She wore a wedding gift from her new husband: a gold chain bracelet dangling a gold miniature policeman's whistle. To Mrs. Renzo Rossellini, the bridegroom's sister-in-law, Ingrid looked "transfigured with...
...arts! The arts have gone to pot," replied the Sultan cheerfully. Once his people found a man who could carve well, he went on, they would chain him and give him all the food, drink, women and tools his heart desired, and after some drinking and some lovemaking he would create masterpieces. But then the misguided British stopped the custom. They said it was slavery. "If any great city in America could tether a hundred young artists, chosen for their inventive faculties," concluded Pound, "that city would within two decades become the center of occidental...